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Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by MrOwnPut »

bovermyer wrote: post #284
MrOwnPut wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

# Automation - https://n8n.io/ (script i/o for services) - https://www.home-assistant.io/ (script i/o for physical world) - https://homebridge.io/ (bridge homekit for above) # Federation - https://misskey-hub.net/ (social network [used for game community]) - https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ (social network [used for biz]) - https://lemmy.ml/ (custom news aggregator for fan site) @%4$! ADHD segfault, IOU sequence ac…

How does Misskey compare to Mastodon?

Misskey has a lot more features, but can be too much for certain scenarios.

Misskey is more geared towards "fun" communities, because of it's design and it's extra features.

Mastodon is more sterile/corporate and geared towards serious things.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by highdeserthackr »

mrmattyboy wrote: post #123

On a VM host (using libvirt), I run: - FreeIPA (LDAP + DNS) - Keycloak (SAML/OpenIDC provider for FreeIPA) - Gatekeeper (or the new replacement) (SAML authentication in-front of applications that do not support SAML/OpenIDC - several OpenVPN servers (Personal access to internal networks + connection to remote VMs) - Tinc (Site-to-site VPNs) - Jenkins x 2 (CI) with linux/windows/macos build agents for various projects…

Thanks for sharing, never heard of OnlyOffice...I will be investigating as part of a goal to manage shared access to ~30K MS Office files.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by bloudermilk »

pinecamp wrote: post #337
csixty4 wrote: post #279

There's a NUC in my basement connected to my router over gigabit ethernet: - Caddy acting as a reverse proxy in front of the other apps - Wallabag to capture articles I want to read later on my e-reader - Calibre Web to manage my ebooks & PDFs - Two Minecraft Bedrock Edition servers for my kid & their friends - Yopass for secure password & secret sharing Prior to this, I had a Raspberry Pi in the closet for hosting a…

Be careful with calibre-web; it's had a ton of vulnerabilities. To the author's credit, they are typically addressed quickly, but there have been enough related to auth to make me wary. https://huntr.dev/repos/janeczku/calibre-web/

Maybe hosting this service behind a firewall / on a private network would make the most sense. I notice many people here are running Tailscale at home — perhaps this is why?

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

natebc wrote: post #390
c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you automate your Linux ISO seeding? Like getting updated torrents when a new version is released. I have been thinking about this from time to time, and haven't come up with a solution other than scraping.

I just do this. Update the ubuntu line every 2 years or so. This runs as a cronjob on my synology with the working directory set to a directory that the Synology "Download Station" is watching. It picks up the torrents and does its thing. I come in every now and then and clean out the dot releases. It's not the best but it's not the worst either. #!/bin/bash wget -nH --cut-dirs=4 -r -l1 --no-parent -R "*.tmp" -A "*.t…

Wow, thanks!

Much simpler than my glue using changedetection.io and huginn.

I also learned some new tricks with wget.

For others interested: https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=wget+-nH+--cut-dirs%3D4...

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #303
c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you automate your Linux ISO seeding? Like getting updated torrents when a new version is released. I have been thinking about this from time to time, and haven't come up with a solution other than scraping.

I pretty much update things manually when I think of it (usually every ~2 months or so) or when I am downloading a new version for whatever reason (like to flash yet another computer I picked up). I've been looking for something to do in my downtime , so I might see if I can whip something up to automate updates, could be a fun project.

Right now I have have changedection.io call a huginn webhook to alert me when a new release is up.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by joshka »

rft wrote: post #157
asim wrote: post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

I would love for something like this to become mainstream, mostly from a privacy PoV. But, I think there are just too many different use cases, pitfalls, user problems and limitations. Something like a plug and play box could work for the very small intersection of "technically inclined and understands how to port forward and how to fix minor problems" and "not interested in tinkering with self hosting". As someone e…

I wrote up a larger reply to this, but simplified it a bunch:

1. Hardware needs to be good enough. Raspberry Pi proved that. Ubiquity of common parts solves a bunch of issues. The main limiting factors here are likely transcode speed, ethernet speed, encryption speed.

2. Software needs a good modularization story. Linux in general suffers from the idea that everything is configurable and to configure everything you have to learn about how it interacts with everything. There's a lot of focus on how to do things rather than matching common use cases to profiles that just work. As a concrete example rather than selecting the "I'm at a coffee shop or airport" profile, I need to select that I'm on an insecure network that I don't trust with a specific password and a configuration for my VPN that forces traffic ... Addressing componentization via use case design seems lacking (and a good place to introduce standardization). A lot of the "tinkering" level software seems to start with "How" rather than "Why" as the impetus.

3. Security. We have security principles that are evolving to solve these sorts of problems (OAuth2 RAR, Passkeys). Invest in them.

4. Support. Common solutions for common problems breed easier conversations. There are consultants that do NAS support for small businesses because those NAS companies have gained enough market share. Secondly we need to spend more time to start with the why rather than the what. Software developers (myself included) obsess over the latter and build systems at that level that can answer (how fast is my connection) rather than systems that inherently answer the real need (why is my connection slow or intermittent).

5. Perhaps the answer is just build a better NAS company where the focus is on home server software rather than purely around adding server software to a bunch of disks in a box. Perhaps the answer is really embracing the idea of U in NUC?

Perhaps this has been done elsewhere? Perhaps it's been done too many times to really work?

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Post by shanebellone »

linsomniac wrote: post #409
dublinben wrote: post #381

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The setup your inlaws have probably doesn't rely on the cloud, and report everything they watch to advertising companies, unlike your setup.

They have cable for their primary viewing, which means that, sure, Google isn't seeing it directly, but their cable provider has all the details of what they are watching then. Honestly, I'd trust Google with that information over Xfinity or whoever they have for cable. Verizon? I realize that is a concern for some, that is not a concern for me.

I have accepted that most of what I do is recorded and tracked. As such, I have a few options... opt in, opt out, or a hybrid approach. Google provides enough value to justify the cost (IMO). For this reason, most of my products are from Google. I'd rather consolidate my data with a single company rather than spread it out across many.

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Post by f00l82 »

danparsonson wrote: post #445
nkcmr wrote: post #229

Love this thread, here is mine: Hardware: Synology NAS (DS420+) Software: - Synology DSM – Was actually quite impressed by Synology's software. It is a tad quirky but can usually be worked around but all in all pretty good. (https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm) - Plex: not in love, but it gets the job done, definitely gonna use this thread to look in to replacements (https://www.plex.tv/) - Syncthing: i love my magic…

> Plex: not in love, but it gets the job done, definitely gonna use this thread to look in to replacements ( https://www.plex.tv/ ) I'm sure you've seen it already but Jellyfin is fantastic.

emby + Kodi is also good.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by derkades »

jum4 wrote: post #411
derkades wrote: post #50

- Router in VM - Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running) - Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync - Joplin server for notes sync - Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house - Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends - Jenkins CI for my open source projects - Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing) - qbittorr…

Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology? My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.

About 15 meters of one USB 2.0, one displayport and one HDMI cable. Of course a 5V power supply for USB at the client end, soldered to the cheapest USB hub I could find.

I never need more than the speed USB 2.0 provides anyway, and those USB 3.0 optical extensions are way too expensive.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by derkades »

courgette wrote: post #109
derkades wrote: post #50

- Router in VM - Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running) - Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync - Joplin server for notes sync - Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house - Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends - Jenkins CI for my open source projects - Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing) - qbittorr…

How is storj going ?

Have been getting $20-50/mo for sharing 15TB. Probably won't be worth it for the average developer with insane salary here, but I'm not complaining!
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